WEBINAR REGISTRATION
It’s a Win-Win: Strategies for USAID Local Partner Success
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  • USAID contractor, international development grants, global development webinar

For USAID, local solutions are a way of aiding sustainable development and local ownership. During this one hour webinar, we'll aim to demystify the USAID business development process by taking a fresh look at the USAID local solutions initiative, discuss innovative approaches for local organizations to work with USAID and how best to engage with priming implementers.


Hear insights from USAID’s local solutions and contracting teams, a priming partner as well as the inspiring success story of a local partner organization. By facilitating this discussion, Devex hopes to contribute to a better understanding of local solutions, their importance and how all local partners could become success stories.


Our speakers will also share valuable insights on how local organizations can engage with priming implementers in the best way and explore what priming implementers are specifically looking for in their future local partners.


Are you interested? Register and don’t miss the opportunity:

Zachary Pusch
Local Solutions Training and Learning Coordinator, USAID

Zachary has over a decade of experience in international development and foreign policy. Today he serves as USAID's Local Solutions Training and Learning Coordinator. In this capacity, Zach works collaboratively across the Agency to help coordinate and tailor learning and training activities aimed at supporting USAID staff to advance the sustainability of development results by fostering local ownership and supporting effective local systems.


Amy McQuade
Contracting Officer, USAID

Amy McQuade is a Foreign Service Contracting and Agreement Officer who completed her first overseas assignment at the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in September 2015. Amy joined the Office of Cuban Affairs in October 2015 on detail to support the program for 6 months. She is currently a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Foreign Operations in the Office of Acquisition and Assistance based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining USAID as a Foreign Service Officer, Amy practiced law in the D.C. Superior Court and D.C. Court of Appeals. Amy grew up in Maine, attended college in Middlebury, Vermont, and earned her JD/MA in Washington, D.C.


Patrick Crump
Associate Vice President for Program Quality and Impact, Save the Children

Patrick Crump currently serves as Save the Children’s Associate Vice President for Program Quality and Impact, overseeing M&, knowledge management and award management as critical quality functions, and integrating partnership, gender, and urbanization as cross-cutting themes and functions into Save the Children’s programming. He has worked with national development organizations in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Haiti, Mali, Nepal, Bangladesh and Georgia. He has worked with Save the Children for 16 years, including as Country Director in Egypt and Chief of Party in the Republic of Georgia. Patrick has thirty years of development experience, ranging from living and working in villages in Egypt and Jordan to initiating national programs and protocols in early childhood development, village lending, and peri-natal care. Patrick is a Fulbright scholar, has a Masters in Rural Development from the UK’s University of East Anglia, and a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Massachussetts. .